Well, This Sucks

The Supreme had declined to intervene, so the the Texas anti-abortion law, the most extreme law in the nation, to come into full effect.

This is not a surprise.   With 6 radical right-wing and corrupt judges out of 9 on the court, it was inevitable that they would overturn Roe .v Wade.

In fact, I expect them to overturn Griswold v. Connecticut, Eisenstadt v. Baird, Bellotti v. Baird,  Brown v. Board of Education, and attempt to reinstate Dred Scott v. Sandford.

The most radical abortion law in the US has gone into effect, despite legal efforts to block it.

A near-total abortion ban in Texas empowers any private citizen to sue an abortion provider who violates the law, opening the floodgates to harassing and frivolous lawsuits from anti-abortion vigilantes that could eventually shutter most clinics in the state.

“Abortion access will be thrown into absolute chaos,” says Amanda Williams, executive director of the abortion support group the Lilith Fund, a plaintiff in the suit that challenged the law. “Unfortunately, many people who need access the most will slip through the cracks, as we have seen over the years with the relentless attacks here in our state.

“It is unbelievable that Texas politicians have gotten away with this devastating and cruel law that will harm so many.”

Senate Bill 8, ushered through the Republican-dominated Texas legislature and signed into law by the Republican governor, Greg Abbott, in May, bars abortion once embryonic cardiac activity is detected, which is around six weeks, and offers no exceptions for rape or incest. Texas is the first state to ban abortion this early in pregnancy since Roe v Wade, and last-minute efforts to halt it through an appeal to the US supreme court by Tuesday did not succeed.

While a dozen other states have passed similar so-called “heartbeat” bills, they have all been blocked by the courts. The Texas version is novel in that it is intentionally designed to shield government officials from enforcement, and thus make legal challenges more difficult to secure. It instead incentivizes any private citizen in the US to bring civil suit against an abortion provider or anyone who “aids or abets” the procedure. 

Can we please give Texas back to Mexico?

The Talibaptists are not going to be satisfied until they make A Handmaid's Tale is reality.